Weapon-Eating Bastard [EN]: Chapter 64

Weapon-Devouring Bastard – Chapter 64

The rain of daggers each possessed a powerful, destructive force, befitting an ultimate technique.

To be recognized as an ultimate technique within the Soong Moo Yi family, which had accumulated countless techniques over generations, meant it possessed considerable depth and power.

I didn’t lose my composure.

To counter my sixth sister’s extreme attack, I drew the last hidden card I had.

Whoooong!

Black Night, which had been emitting a clear sword-song, descended.

However, Black Night didn’t block the daggers but slashed into empty air.

It seemed like a wasted motion in such a crucial situation.

‘Ha! I’ve won!’

Lee Seol-ah’s eyes gleamed with the certainty of victory.

She didn’t even consider the possibility that she might have violated the rules.

However, the scene unfolding before her eyes was slightly different.

Clang!

A dagger aimed at Lee Chul lost control and fell to the ground.

That wasn’t the end of it.

Swoosh-.

Lee Chul once again slashed into empty air.

Clang!

He deflected another dagger.

“……!”

Lee Seol-ah was shocked.

He hadn’t collided with the daggers, just made empty slashes into the air, yet the daggers that had been pouring down, accurately targeting him, fell haphazardly.

‘I didn’t expect him to use Meteor [a technique that controls projectiles with magic], but either way, it’s a success.’

The Sword of the Founder, Black Night.

This sword cuts magic power.

With my current skills, I can’t perfectly block Meteor.

That’s why I used Black Night to sever the lines of magic power connecting the daggers and my sixth sister.

It required tremendous concentration to inject magic power into Black Night and to read the lines of magic power that needed to be cut with the Magic Eye [a technique that allows the user to see magical energy], but I succeeded.

And avoiding the daggers that had lost control wasn’t difficult.

“Now it’s my turn.”

I had broken through the ultimate technique, Meteor.

I took a step forward.

Lee Seol-ah’s eyes trembled once more.

‘Is it that strike from before? If I keep my distance, there’s no way I’ll get hit!’

Lee Seol-ah leaped backward.

At that moment, she saw a strange smile forming on Lee Chul’s lips.

Exorcism.

Exorcism was originally a sword technique created to fight monsters.

It wasn’t a technique that could only be used at close range.

All of this was a setup for a decisive moment.

Kwaaaaaang!

The explosion of aura sent a cloud of dust soaring into the air, engulfing me and my sixth sister.

“Hoo…… Ugh!”

I felt my body swaying as soon as I unleashed the final strike.

Throb!

I felt a dull pain in both eyes because I had used the Magic Eye to its limit.

It felt as if a bug was digging through my frontal lobe.

Moreover, my whole body ached because I had blocked the family’s ultimate technique at close range.

‘Exorcism landed properly.’

A very brief moment to catch my breath.

And I scraped together all the remaining magic power.

‘I have to end this!’

The opponent is of the same Soong Moo Yi bloodline as me.

It won’t be over until I see her fall with my own eyes!

I gritted my teeth and lunged toward where my sixth sister would be.

At that moment.

Thwack!

The dust cloud burst open, and something flew at me from the front before I could even dodge.

“……!”

Swoosh!

The dagger deeply grazed my thigh and bounced away.

One knee buckled, and my body lost its balance.

Whoosh!

And something quickly approached, tearing through the gap in the dust cloud created by the dagger.

It was my sixth sister.

Her face was smeared with blood from internal injuries, and she thrust a dagger at me with a fierce glint in her eyes.

“Kuh!”

I desperately pushed off the ground backward and reached out my hand.

And,

Shhhhh!

My sixth sister’s dagger pierced into my chest.

* * *

The sensation of metal piercing the skin is something you can never get used to.

At first, it stings, and later, a burning heat spreads as if you’ve been branded with fire.

“…….”

Even in a situation where I was gasping for breath.

I couldn’t breathe roughly and stood still, staring at my sixth sister.

My sixth sister was motionless, pushing the dagger into my chest, staring intently into my eyes.

I lowered my head and looked at the dagger that had pierced me.

‘If I had been even a second late in extending my sword to stop it, my heart would have been pierced.’

My sixth sister had aimed for my heart without hesitation, and I had extended Black Night toward my sixth sister’s torso.

By a very narrow margin, Black Night succeeded in stopping my sixth sister’s advance.

But it wasn’t perfect, and I couldn’t stop my sixth sister’s dagger from piercing through the skin of my chest.

I looked into my sixth sister’s eyes for a moment and then took a step back.

Thud!

My sixth sister collapsed onto the training ground.

‘She must have fainted the moment she was hit by Exorcism.’

She must have thrown the dagger right before she fainted, but her body reacted instinctively to my hostility.

Before I could savor the victory, I let out a hollow laugh.

‘What a truly terrifying bloodline.’

Even with her mind cut off from fainting, her body moved, emitting killing intent.

But either way.

I had won.

“Ah…….”

The guards who belatedly came up onto the training ground let out suppressed exclamations.

They stood still, alternating between looking at me and the fallen sixth sister, twitching.

“What are you doing?”

I glared at them, narrowing my eyes.

“Aren’t you going to take her away? She’ll die from internal injuries if you leave her like this.”

“Y-yes?”

I pointed to my fallen sixth sister with my finger.

The warriors, who had clearly entered to stop me, belatedly came to their senses and began to take care of the fallen sixth sister.

“Hoo.”

Only then did I let out a suppressed breath.

Silence still lingered in the central training ground.

I glanced around at the gazes that were filled with shock.

Well, have you seen it?

Warriors of the family. Hidebound elders. Even my half-siblings.

To you who thought that I would lose just because I am a bastard, I have proven myself for the first time.

I turned my head and looked up at my father, sitting in that distant position above.

And.

Clap-.

A clapping sound was heard.

It was my father.

My father was very quietly bringing his two palms together.

In response, people began to clap awkwardly, one by one.

I felt a thrilling pleasure from the pouring applause. No, it was the moment I was about to feel it.

“Our baby is the best! Damn it, I believed in youuuuu! Kyaaaaaa!”

A tearing voice echoed through the training ground as if it would collapse.

‘……Ha, good heavens. Aunt.’

I covered my forehead and dropped my head.

Such a thunderous shout amidst everyone awkwardly clapping.

If it’s Aunt, it’s just like Aunt.

But it wasn’t a bad feeling.

What if they see it badly?

My recognition as a bastard would already be lower than the floor.

I smiled and sheathed Black Night.

* * *

Lee Kyung-hwa couldn’t relax her expression even while the sparring was in progress.

She was recalling a very old memory.

After that day, she lost her family and lived away from them.

The past in the family that she didn’t even want to recall.

That incident also started with such a sinister event.

If her disciple and beloved nephew, Lee Chul, were to be in a similar situation.

What should she do?

She tried to shake off such terrible thoughts by shaking her head fiercely whenever they came to mind.

Thanks to that, she couldn’t even watch the sparring properly.

Strange sounds began to enter her ears.

“He’s good, isn’t he?”

“He’s not just good. He’s amazing, isn’t he?”

It was the voices of the spectators.

They were all members of the Soong Moo Yi family.

They were people who each had an eye for talent.

Kwaang!

At that moment, another explosion was heard, and Lee Kyung-hwa flinched and lowered her head again.

“His fundamentals are terrifyingly solid.”

“I can’t understand it. Even if he’s a direct descendant, he’s a bastard…… Did they say the bastard is 15 years old now?”

“What is that aura skill? It’s not the Soong Moo Yi family’s secret magic power technique.”

Only then did Lee Kyung-hwa slowly raise her head.

The figure of Lee Chul, who was unleashing a black aura like the night sky, came into her eyes.

Hwaaack!

What was binding the feet of Lee Seol-ah, who was approaching, was the Strong Energy Art, Underworld [a technique that uses internal energy].

Kwagagagang!

What was contained in the sword strike sweeping across the front was the Strong Energy Art, Cutting Wind [a technique that uses internal energy].

They were all aura skills that she and Lee Chul had created.

“Ah!”

Light finally returned to Lee Kyung-hwa’s eyes.

Her beloved nephew was toying with a sister who was several levels above him.

Only then could Lee Kyung-hwa watch the whole situation.

With the eyes of a scholar, the eyes of a teacher, and the eyes of an aunt.

‘Yes! You have to win! Because you’re a genius!’

Insecurity, distrust, trauma.

It felt as if countless emotions were being washed away by the aftermath of the aura skills that were bursting out so refreshingly.

It was that moment.

Weeeeeeeeng!

The daggers suddenly soared into the air.

The Soong Moo Yi family’s ultimate technique, Meteor.

“Block it!”

A desperate shout was heard from someone in the audience.

Lee Kyung-hwa looked toward the source of the voice, not the training ground.

The voice belonged to her little older brother, Lee Tae-hong.

Lee Kyung-hwa smiled at the sight.

‘Older brother is outdated too. He’s always at his desk, so he can’t see properly!’

Lee Kyung-hwa, who had already shaken off her daze, realized that she couldn’t feel any embarrassment in Lee Chul’s expression.

And that sly brat never lost when he made that expression.

Swoosh! Clang!

Lee Chul swung Black Night and shot down the family’s ultimate techniques one by one.

Everyone was shocked.

The Soong Moo Yi family’s ultimate technique had been broken through powerlessly, though not completely.

And Lee Chul raised his sword.

The strike of the final battle that she had seen so often.

Exorcism fell.

Kwarung!

Along with the explosion, a thick cloud of dust swallowed the two on the training ground.

Lee Seol-ah rushed at Lee Chul with an almost animalistic reaction, but Lee Chul leaped backward, blocking even the final strike.

Like that.

Lee Chul, won.

“He won…….”

Lee Kyung-hwa felt as if a black curtain covering her was being lifted.

Her disciple had shattered the family’s obstruction head-on, with the skills he had created with her, and nothing else.

Clap clap clap!

A clapping sound was heard.

There were so many people gathered, but it was a mediocre sound that was neither big nor small.

Lee Kyung-hwa used even the magic power in her vocal cords to pour out all the emotions she was feeling.

“Our baby is the best! Damn it, I believed in youuuuu! Kyaaaaaa!”

She wanted to say something cooler, but when she actually said it, it came out like this.

What could she do?

In the end, the winner was Lee Chul.

And that child is my disciple.

“Heeheehe!”

Lee Kyung-hwa shook her body, grinning broadly.

‘Ha…… Elder Lee Kyung-hwa…….’

The nanny next to her covered her burning face with both hands.

She felt like crying.

* * *

Father came down to the training ground himself.

Behind him followed Madam Baek and the Head of the Elders, Uncle Lee Tae-hong, and my siblings, all with faces as cold as ever.

“Excellent.”

Father opened his mouth.

The expressions of the people who had followed Father changed at those words.

The head of the Soong Moo Yi family, Lee Tae-shin, never praised his children this much in front of anyone.

But I knew why Father was praising me.

‘He’s not praising me just for this battle.’

More precisely, it was praise for perfectly fulfilling the conditions he had set.

To persuade the Elders.

I had reorganized the game through my uncle and finally won.

‘Choosing Tae-hong to set up the game, choosing the sixth sister, the way the battle unfolded…….’

Lee Tae-shin looked at his youngest son.

All of it had been calculated.

If it had been a normal sequence, the seventh sister should have come out as the sparring partner.

If not, a branch family warrior of a suitable level would have stood in this place.

But the youngest had chosen the sixth sister.

The opponent with whom he could gain a superior advantage in terms of compatibility more than anyone else.

However, those who didn’t know that would have thought that the sixth sister would win unconditionally.

The youngest had aimed for the gap in that psychology.

‘It’s easy to say, but…….’

Lee Tae-shin turned his head and looked around at the many people gathered here.

Among them, how many people would be able to do this if they were given the same situation and the same conditions?

He knew that this child would somehow fulfill his conditions, but he didn’t know that he would do it so perfectly.

“You have proven yourself. I permit you to go on the warrior path. You are qualified to do so.”

“Thank you, Father.”

I made eye contact with my father.

My father, who was looking at me with satisfaction, didn’t stop there.

“You have an expression that says you have something to say.”

Here it comes.

I had been waiting for this moment.

The reason why Father had come down to the training ground instead of calling me separately.

Father always gave rewards along with the tests he gave.

However, the reward for this test was virtually the permission to go on the warrior path, so I shouldn’t be able to receive anything more from Father.

To Father, that is.

“Then, if it’s not impolite, I would like to say a word.”

I slowly opened my mouth.